On August 7, a jury found white Detroit homeowner Theodore Wafer “guilty” of manslaughter and second-degree murder in the shooting death of Renisha McBride, a black 19-year-old, who was “extremely drunk.”

Wafer shot McBride on November 2, after McBride began pounding on the doors of his house at 4:30 a.m.

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Mail Online reports that Wafer grabbed his shotgun amid the “unbelievable” pounding and “fired through a screen door as someone rushed from the side of the porch.”

According to Fox News, Wafer testified, “I didn’t know it was a teenager. In that split second, I didn’t know what’s coming next.”

The defense argued that his actions were in self-defense.

McBride was reportedly drunk and had crashed her car at 1 a.m. She then refused help from bystanders. “Prosecutors speculated [she] … may have been seeking help” when she pounded on Wafer’s doors three hours and thirty minutes later.